The Breaking Wave

Name: The Breaking Wave
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Nevil Shute
ISBN: 9781461812319

Author: Nevil Shute

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Unabridged: 8 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/30/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Allan had been away from Coombaragana, flying in the Royal Air Force. Now he has returned, wounded and disillusioned, to his ancestral home. Days before, Jessie Proctor had taken her own life. Why? Allan looked at the young face in the photograph in Jessie's passport and froze. He knew who she really was.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Meryl on April 23, 2009

The thing that keeps me coming back to Shute--and has made him one of my favorites--is his wonderful leading female characters. They're all different enough to make them worth reading, but still similar--smart, sensible, sturdy...in short, plucky. From Moira Davidson facing the end of the world (On......more

Goodreads review by Manny on May 09, 2011

I'm trying to guess how many books I've read which in one way or another are about the Second World War. I've read a couple just in the last month, Wilcox's Japan's Secret War and Linebarger's Psychological Warfare. As usual, I was gripped by two contradictory emotions: horror and fascinatio......more